Pamela Jain

Early years

Pamela (Pamili) Jain was born to a Bengali family. Her parents are Kamelesh Basu and Shakuntala Basu, and one of her grandfathers was the Bengali novelist Bimal Mitra, who wrote Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam.

Jain has been fond of singing since young age. Initially, she thought it to be nothing more than a hobby, but later she realised that, if pursued seriously, it can be taken as a profession. When she was seven years old, she won her first prize in singing. She was brought up in the steel city of Bhilai in Chhattisgarh and pursued her academic and music education there. She had her professional training in Indian classical music under the guidance of Pandit Bimalendu Mukherjee (Bhilai) and Pandit Aaskan Sharma (Mumbai). From the age of 16, she started singing for Raipur radio station. She became winner in Meri Awaz Suno (1998) and Adaab Araz Hai (1999). From then onwards, she started singing at a professional level. Jain is also a qualified chartered accountant and cost accountant.

Career

To establish a foothold in the field of music, Jain went to Mumbai, where she sang a song for the film Na Tum Jaano Na Hum (2000) by the music director Rajesh Roshan. She went on to sing numerous other songs for leading music directors such as Oscar-winner A. R.Rahman, Ravindra Jain, Anand Raj Anand, Sandesh Sandiliya, Lalit Sen, Sohail Sen, Jeet Ganguly, Pritam and various regional music directors. One of her biggest hits was the song "KumKum" for the television serial Kumkum. The song broke all the records and made her a star overnight. The song "Haye ram" from the film Na tum jano na hum and "Kahan pe meri jaan jaoge" from the film Calcutta Mail were also chart busters. She has worked with the oscar nominated director Ashutosh Gowarikar in films like Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey and What's Your Raashee?. Her voice has been mainly used for the younger generation stars. She has done playback singing for many famous actresses like Rani Mukherjee, Deepika Padukone, Esha Deol, Amisha Patel, Priyanka Chopra etc. Besides Hindi songs, she has also sung in other languages such as Bengali, Marathi, Oriya, Gujarati, Bhojpuri and Punjabi..

Albums, remixes and serial titles

In addition to this, she has sung many Gujarati garba albums through the music company Soor mandir. Some of them are Dhol, Taali, Ude re gulaal and Utsav.